Miró’s work offers one of the most unique visions of the surrealist current and reflects the constant interest in the subconscious, the dream world, childhood memories and the Catalan land. A painter, sculptor, ceramist and engraver who, from detailed essays and almost calligraphic conceptions imbued with innovative trends from Paris, comes into contact with the surrealists which leads towards a synthetic and expressive approach. Joan Miró generated a visual language and an iconography that became standards of poetic compositions that subtly combine figure and signs, and that reached their maximum simplification through colour and essential forms. One of the artist’s most significant contributions was the creation of the Fundació Joan Miró, designed by Josep Lluís Sert in 1975 and dedicated to disseminating the prevailing artistic trends and promoting Catalan artists.
L’obra de Santi Moix es caracteritza per l’acumulació i la fragmentació, la sensualitat i un sentit poètic de la forma en un espai horitzontal pla, dens i vital. Trenca amb la imatge de continuïtat, digressions que avancen i retrocedeixen per a finalment construir esquemàtiques estructures biomorfes. Pintures i escultures que són elements en moviment, com laberints que es ramifiquen fins a l’infinit, provocant una reflexió sobre un món fluctuant arrossegat per la fastuositat i la rapidesa que ens introdueix en un temps diferent, lliure, vital, desbordant i passiona
An incredibly creative painter and inventor of a multifaceted oeuvre. He was a disciple of artists such as Joan and Màrius Vilatobà. He trained at the Acadèmia Miralles in Manresa and entered the Escola de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi in Barcelona when he was only seventeen years old. In 1961 he and his wife moved to La Massana (Andorra) and he worked mainly on the theme of social realism during that decade. Then, from the 1970s, Monegal focused entirely on painting and underwent an important artistic development whereby he moved on from realism to delve into geometrizations and the idealization of the figure. Finally, in 1975, he took on tempera painting which enabled him to develop the plastic language that characterizes his work.
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